All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Home is wherever I go.

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.